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Arnold Arboretum Honors Father of Modern Chinese Botany, Identifier of Dawn Redwood
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Jamaica Plain News
Arnold Arboretum Honors Father of Modern Chinese Botany, Identifier of Dawn RedwoodIf you’ve walked past the Arnold Arboretum’s Hunnewell Building recently you may have noticed a new rock with a plaque in front of a dawn redwood tree.
That plaque honors Hu Xiansu, the father of modern Chinese botany who identified the dawn redwood.
Michael S. Dosmann, Keeper of the Living Collections at the Arnold Arboretum, and Lisa Pearson, Head of the Library and Archives at the Arnold Arboretum, both took part in the symposium as well, and this article draws from Pearson’s remarks.
In discussions with Arnold Arboretum taxonomist Rehder, both men felt that viva was too ambiguous and should not be used.
By early March, 1948, the seeds had all been received and Arnold Arboretum staff had sprung into action preparing and sending packets to various institutions and nurseries.